Michael Allyn Wells

This may sound like a strange request but I'm looking for a few good poets. Okay, really I'm wanting really good poets - awesome poe...

#links When I think of rejection two things initially come to my mind... a child showing something to a parent, a teacher or some other ...

Stephen Burt of the Poetry Foundation writes that “Project Runway," a popular cable TV show, holds lessons for poetry critics. Burt is...

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age. ~Marguerite Young

  At the left is a maple flavored coffee drink that I indulged in while back  at a poetry reading/book signing event. I think maple has to b...

In a reading before an appreciative crowd at the Central Branch of the Kansas City Public Library , Thursday night, California poet Victori...

Be careful those of you besmirching poets... some of you may be closet poets yourself. You could be a closet poet: If you use a circle to do...

A few worthy mentions... Mark your calendar for next Tuesday, June 17, 7:00pm for a reading at The Johnson County Central Resource Library...

mood: upbeat listening to: nothing The Super Bowl is in the history books. So you went to bed last night with a smile on your face, or a fro...

For me, poetry, more than any other form of literature has brought to the forefront a greater awareness of the dependence of language upon e...

I've finished reading Giving Up - The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Jillian Becker. This small memoir now joins the dozens of biographic...

"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers." -Mignon McLaughlin Oh my God! How true is that?!! Anyway, I...

Autumn poetry is a dime a dozen. It is prolific I suppose because there are such quick and sharp changes in the images right before our eye...

Deep in thought Barry rests upon my lap while I snap this picture. The thoughts... maybe when is he going to feed me, how long do I have to...

It was 75 years ago today (27 October 1932) that Sylvia Plath was born to Otto Emil Plath and Aurelia Schober Plath in Boston, Massachusett...

A New York Times article [ Poetry Prize Sets Off Resignations at Society ] details a controversy that has grown within the Poetry Society o...

At the center of each poem is a mystery - Mark Strand on poetry [ here ] Poet's Choice - Robert Strand examines a James Hoch poem [ he...

Today is the last opportunity to participate in the survey of poets on their revision practices. See the left sidebar and take the survey i...

It's Monday and and of course I wish it wasn't. Of course next week I have Labor Day to look forward to. But that is then and this ...

Online NewsHour: Essay Poet's Work Honors Native Spirit August 23, 2007 PBS : "Joy Harjo Reflects on the 'Spirit of Poetry'...